Cricket

NEW DELHI: Trent Boult left the cricket world stunned with his fielding brilliance after taking a sensational catch hailed as the “greatest ever” during an Indian Premier League match. New Zealand´s Boult, playing for Delhi Daredevils in the lucrative Twenty20 tournament, leapt airborne on the deep square leg boundary to pouch one-handed a shot by Virat Kohli, skipper of the ...

Snehal Pradhan If you are ever in Karachi and find yourself seeking treatment at the clinic of a dentist named Urooj Mumtaz Khan, it might be best to check if there is an India-Pakistan women’s cricket match on that day. If there is, walk away. Quickly. “All my cricket is watched while I’m working,” says the former captain of the ...

Kings XI Punjab 126 for 1 (Gayle 62*, Rahul 60) beat Kolkata Knight Riders 191 for 7 (Lynn 74, Karthik 43, Tye 2-30) by nine wickets (via DLS method) It is quite rare that T20 matches are decided in the Powerplay. Saturday was one such day when Kings XI Punjab’s openers KL Rahul and Chris Gayle outmuscled Kolkata Knight Riders’ ...

Former Australia spinner Shane Warne has criticised Cricket Australia, saying that “greed” is the main reason behind the board’s decision to expand the Big Bash League next summer. An extended BBL – with an increase in fixtures from 35 to 43 – is set to stretch into mid-February next year, with games played at four new venues. It has been ...

LAHORE: Pakistan cricket captain Sarfraz Ahmed finally weighed in on the Fawad Alam debate saying that only 16 players could have been selected out of 25. Speaking to the media on the last day of the taring camp at Gaddafi Stadium on Saturday, Sarfraz said that if it was up to him he would have picked all 25 players, who ...

DAVID Warner has traded the white collar of his cricket shirt for blue collar work on a building site — his own building site, to be exact. The Aussie batsman — who was banned from international and state cricket for a year for his part in the ball tampering scandal in South Africa — is spending his free time helping ...

World No. 1 female tennis player, Serena Williams, showed that she might know a thing or two about cricket. She is well known for wielding a tennis racquet – to successful and telling effect – but on Sunday, world No. 1 female tennis player, Serena Williams, showed that she might know a thing or two about cricket. The sporting icon, ...

In the latest episode of our series, we feature an XI of male cricketers who officiated in international cricket, including two men from the very first Test ever played. Charles Bannerman It was 15 March 1877, and Australia and England played what became known as the first Test match ever. Opening the innings for Australia, Bannerman ended the day unbeaten ...

Chris Gayle has sent out another warning to opponents world over that it isn’t time to write him off yet. The Windies opener brought up his 21st Twenty20 hundred on Thursday 19 April, making an unbeaten 104 off 63 balls in the Indian Premier League (IPL) match for his franchise Kings XI Punjab against Kane Williamson’s Sunrisers Hyderabad. Gayle smashed ...

English domestic cricket is set to get yet another format after the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced plans for an eight-team, 100-ball competition in the pursuit of younger, family-oriented audiences. Under the proposals, unanimously backed by the ECB board, each side would face 15 six-ball overs, culminating in a final 10 deliveries — 20 balls shorter than traditional ...